Given how many Christmas Cards are now not coming my way after I suggested that Gulf Keystone (GKP) may not be a buy anymore, I now have a tendency to look over my shoulder in the wake of going bearish on any private investor’S favourite. Not that I was the one who sold 17 million…
U.S. prosecutors are continuing the crackdown on insider trading, pursuing the hard line that has been their policy for the last ten years and giving a clear message to all professionals that sooner or later, perpetrators will be caught and subjected to hefty fines and possibly also to imprisonment. A lot of recent cases…
It’s fair to say that the UK economy remains sluggish, and the government’s austerity measures are unsurprisingly choking off a significant amount of GDP growth. Meanwhile, even balancing the budget in the UK seems an almost insurmountable task for this or any other government thanks to the mess the twin numpties of Balls & Brown…
The Nikkei 225 is now down 1500 points from its highs and down 1150 (over 7%) from yesterday’s close All the time it is just the quadrillion JPY second-largest bond market in the world that is experiencing volatility on an unprecedented scale, the BoJ and her partners in crime are more than willing to ‘officially’ say “please do…
We suggested a potential short on the Japanese market nearly 1500 points lower just over a week ago (can you believe) and we are now in full blown parabolic mode. The Japanese government and central bank seem to have finally found the magic ingredient for making money grown on trees…Mmmm… Intervention in financial markets has…
Inflation is hot property today, hyperinflation is even hotter! We think we are modern, contemporary, smart and ready to deal with anything. We’ve got that seen-it-all-before, been-there-done-it attitude. But, we are not a patch on what some countries have been through in the worst cases of hyperinflation in history. Here’s the top 10 list of…
It is amazing that after the best part of a year writing for Spreadbet Magazine, that I have touched upon almost every arena of the financial markets; even that that money can be lost as well as made! However, I have not yet touched upon the aspect which, is in some ways, the one that…
FTSE 100 Overview Throughout much of 2012, we can see in the chart that the key benchmark UK index was effectively range bound between the two major psychological levels — 5000 and 6000, but extremely scrappy in terms of the price action. What we saw for the most part over the past year was plenty…
In general when equity prices are rising and credit spreads are tightening as is the case presently, the ratio of gold-to-silver prices falls as ‘fear’ ebbs away and confidence in a real economy returns as exemplified by the rise of risk assets. Twice before we have seen the anti-correlation of stocks and gold/silver flip to…
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